Peasant Soul of Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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Beskrivning

A book concerning the Japanese identity in which the author theorizes that the national mentality is a dichotomy between the "equestrian" and the "peasant". He draws on Japanese and European classical literature, on the history of warfare and on studies of law and business management.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-10-02
Mått:140 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:197
Upplaga:1989
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333443538

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Prologue: the Tokyo Summit of 1979; the peasant spirit in war - the agrarian and equestrian mentality; the Japanese feeling of security - ancestral roots, the soil; the Japanese feeling of security - leadership and security; the spirit of harmony as the cause of conflict; societies in which orders are effective, societies in which they are not. Part 2 Dynamics of envy: the mechanism of the envy society; law and order in an agrarian society; the politics of envy. Part 3 The Japanese - an agrarian people seen from the point of view of history: the Emperor as the Chief High Priest of agrarian ceremonies; the civil war period and the foresight of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns; the meaning of the Meiji Restoration and the history of the Showa Period. Part 4 The age of the Japanese idea: the spirit of commerce and its effect on the Japanese.